Posts Tagged ‘Spelling’

Aloe ABC and Giveaway

Aloe ABC, a new app by Aloe Apps, is designed to help children learn how to write the letters of the alphabet (upper and lower case) and the numbers 0-9. There are four difficulty levels or stages of progression in Aloe ABC: Training, Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced. The Training stage teaches young children how to [...]

 

Friday Findings

Price: $1.99 ~ See Little Fox Gets His Wish in the App Store Animal School – card & puzzle pack – Animal School, will delight your kids with 20 animated animal flash cards and 5 puzzles in all in one app! … Price: $2.99 ~ See The Blue Jackal – An Interactive Tale from Panchatantra in the App Store ABC – Clamp Monkey – ABC-Clamp Monkey is a fun way for kids to learn letter shapes and build words.

 

SUPER WHY Alpha Boost!

My household loves PBS KIDS, so we were very excited to play the new SUPER WHY Alpha Boost! app. In Alpha Boost your little one can play as one of the four main SUPER WHY characters: Super Why, Princess Presto, Wonder Red, and Alpha Pig. Four different party scenarios set the backdrop for the Super [...]

 

Audio Learn 2 Bee with Giveaway

Audio Learn 2 Bee is a follow up to Audio Typing Bee, an app that I featured back in March. This time children will be practicing their spelling with the Dolch sight words. Two hundred and twenty “service” words and ninety-five common nouns have been included and they are broken up into the different Dolch [...]

 
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Simplex Spelling HD

If “tremendous” was a Dolch sight word then you would find it in Simplex Spelling HD and it would be right at home because this is a tremendous spelling app! The app’s complete title is Simplex Spelling HD-Learn How to Spell Dolch Sight Words with Reverse Phonics. That’s a mouthful but an appropriately complete description [...]

 

ColdSpell

It’s been awhile since I’ve reviewed an adult word game. Today I have one that can be played by all ages, here’s how it works. Your screen is filled with blocks of ice and each block has a letter on it. Using your finger you connect the blocks to form words. When you lift your [...]

 

Word Wagon – by Duck Duck Moose

Duck Duck Moose released a brand new app last week and my expectations were high. My expectations are always high when it comes to their apps but I’ve never been disappointed. I’m happy to say that they’ve done it again, in fact Word Wagon might be my favorite Duck Duck Moose app yet. Word Wagon [...]

 

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Build A Word – Easy Spelling & Promo Codes

The official title of this app is Build A Word – Easy Spelling – Learn to Spell Sight Words, Long Vowel and Short Vowel Words. Whoa! With a title like that it’s not hard to believe that the app has more than 600 words for your child to spell. Here’s how the spelling works. In [...]

 

Alphabytes

A word of warning, it’s not a good idea to play around with the Alphabytes app late at night when you’ve got the munchies. You’ll find yourself craving a big bowl of sugary cereal. Why? Because Alphabytes is a cute iPad app that uses alphabet cereal to teach children about letters. Yum! Here are the [...]

 

First Greek Words

Here is an educational app for Greek children who are living in Greece and abroad – First Greek Words. In this app children will have a chance to practice using the letters in the Greek alphabet. They’ll learn what they look like and how they sound. At the same time they’ll be taking those letters [...]

 
 
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